The special issue of CHANCE on George Casella’s books has now appeared and it contains both my earlier post on George passing away and  reviews of several of his books, as follows: Andrew Gelman on Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R Bill Strawderman on Statistical Inference Jean-Louis Foulley on ... [Read more...]

As a celebration of Florence Henderson’s 79th birthday (on February 14), I have created this scatterplot to use in my regression course. The plot depicts the relationship between time spent on mathematics homework outside of school (expressed as z-scores) and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Inspired by Preis et al.’s article Quantifying the advantage of looking forward, recently published in Scientific Reports (one of Nature publishing group’s journals), I wondered if similar big-data web-based research methods might address a question even bigger than how much different countries wonder about next year. How about ... [Read more...]

The other day I saw a plot with some data with a clear jump in it. So I wondered if it were possible to determine the position of that jump. Data with a jump is easy enough made:library(ggplot2)n [Read more...]

Below you can download the slides presented on February 9, 2013 at the Dallas R Users Group on RStudio’s Shiny framework which allows you to create interactive web applications in R. No knowledge of HTML or JavaScript is required! I introduce the alternatives and history of R programming on the web, ... [Read more...]

Wayne Folta writes: I [Folta] was looking for R packages to address a project I’m working on and stumbled onto a package called ‘plspm’. It seems to be a nice package, but the thing I wanted to pass on is the PDF that Gaston Sanchez, its author, wrote that ... [Read more...]

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The links to previous parts are listed here. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). In this part, I tried to recreate the examples in sections A.3.1 of the computational appendix in the reaction engineering book (by Rawlings and Ekerdt). Solving a … Continue reading → [Read more...]

On a whim, I thought it might be fun to try to implement a PID control algorithm ... in R.Yes, I know I have a strange idea of fun.BackgroundPID control is a heuristic method of automatically controlling processes as wide ranging as water levels in tan... [Read more...]

Yesterday, I was uploading some old posts to complete the migration (I get back to my old posts, one by one, to check links of pictures, reformating R codes, etc). And I re-discovered a post published amost 2 years ago, on nuns and Hell’s Angels in an airplaine. It reminded ... [Read more...]

Deliverance!!! We have at last completed our book! Bayesian Essentials with R is off my desk! In a final nitty-gritty day of compiling and recompiling the R package bayess and the LaTeX file, we have reached versions that were in par with our expectations. The package has been submitted to ... [Read more...]

Last time I checked on the number of R questions on StackOverflow, back in June 2011, there were 5000. Today, there are 23,649. (For comparison, there are 15,649 questions about Matlab and 971 questions on SAS.) If you use Twitter, thanks to Trey Causey there's now an easy way to keep up with new R ... [Read more...]

In my last blog post I wrote about impact factors and h-index for different journals. That got me wondering about what the h5 index is for all of the journals that I read and may want to publish in. I could look them all up individually, but that sound... [Read more...]

Next Friday, I will give in Montréal a crash course entitled Econometric Modeling in Finance and Insurance with the R Language. Since IFM2 wanted this course to be an opportunity to discover R, the first part o fthe course will be on the R language. Slides can be downloaded ... [Read more...]

By: Sean M. Gonzalez  Basic plots in R using standard packages like lattice work for most situations where you want to see trends in small data sets, such as your simulation variables, which make sense considering lattice began with the Bell … Continue reading → The post Data Visualization: Graphics with GGPlot2 ... [Read more...]

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Setting up Shiny Server on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be a bit of a process if you’re unfamiliar with Linux system administration. Thankfully, we’ve done all the hard work for you! If you’re looking to get Shiny Server running in EC2 without delay, just ... [Read more...]

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This is the second of a two part reexamination of Florence Nightingale's data visualization based on her innovative cam diagrams (my term) shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Nightingale's original cam diagrams (click to enlarge)RecapIn Part I, I showed that FN applied sectoral areas, rather than a pie chart or conventional ... [Read more...]

Mango Solutions is pleased to confirm details of two forthcoming  R User Group Meetings:  BaselR Date:                                     [Read more...]